US Holocaust Legislation: German National Railway Fears Flood of Lawsuits

[sysop]

Germany's national railway, Deutsche Bahn, has hired a law firm and PR agency in the United States to prepare for legislation being considered by Congress that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue European railway companies for damages in American courts. Deutsche Bahn fears victims could sue for millions if the legislation passes.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...825200,00.html

[ioanonimus]

Some people like money more than others.
I am waiting for legislation being considered by Germans that would allow Amerindian survivors to sue US government for damages in German courts. But it will not happened as there is no financial lobby like the jewish one to buy parliamentarians for them.

[jeffreydahn@yahoo.com]

This US Legislation is beyond ludicrous. Allowing non US citizens, residing in another country, the right to sue yet a third country in US Courts borders on the absurd.

Yet its own people who were imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese aren't allowed to sue Japan.

I see the ugly hand of the Zionist political action committees behind much of this. They are a significant factor in American politics.

[erikSF99]

This is just another appalling shakedown by The Holocaust Industry.

Anyone who has read Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" knows that none of the money will end up with victims who are all dead now--and if they were alive they wouldn't get the money anyway. Readers of the book know that this money will just go to pay big salaries at non-profits who have set up the perfect extortion racket.

The German title of Finkelstein's book is: "Die Holocaust-Industrie: Wie das Leiden der Juden ausgebeutet wird"

This book is a must-read. This shake-down racket creates anti-semitism wherever it goes. The book concludes with a clear explanation of how the argumentation behind the holocaust industry racket is a form of holocaust denial. You'll be shocked by the documented truth in Finkelstein's book.

Enough is enough.

[Trojan Horace]

The US Government need to spend a trillion dollars restoring their own rail network, rather than passing legislation to help wreck Germany's.

I'm not saying that a solid case can't be reliably made that there weren't in 1940s, systematic enthusiastic collusions with the Third Reich's dictates at the senior management level and probably at all levels of the rail network in Third Reich Germany... anyone lacking "enthusiasm" probably wouldn't have lasted long and all those "special" trains took a lot of coordinating... but those really liable for the crimes committed aren't those being asked for compensation. Isn't it a bit twisted to bankrupt today's German train industry and consequently make the present German tax payer liable for the crimes of others, sixty odd years ago? How much collective guilt is enough? Is that really justice? I say that as someone who lost many relatives on those same trains and at the destinations they took them to. I can't speak for the ghosts of my ancestors but I do wonder if they wouldn't see this as anything but a frivolous abuse to the memory of their sufferings? I'd prefer to see a modest, tasteful plaque to their memory at any market square or station where they were boarded at gun point... that would speak a great deal more eloquently.

And would it not also open the US Government up to liability for the lives lost in say their illegal invasion of Iraq, who demonstrably had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 or anything else that discomforted the US? Should Germany then counter-sue for the imposed terms of the Treaty of Verseilles, which produced the conditions that led to the rise of National Socialism? Where does sanity prevail in the land of too many lawyers? Are we trying to reduce antisemitism here or promote it?

[Yaekle]

Originally Posted by jeffreydahn@yahoo.com

This US Legislation is beyond ludicrous. Allowing non US citizens, residing in another country, the right to sue yet a third country in US Courts borders on the absurd.

Yet its own people who were imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese aren't allowed to sue Japan.

I see the ugly hand of the Zionist political action committees behind much of this. They are a significant factor in American politics.

As an American I am ashamed that this is even being contemplated! You are correct, the Zionist PACs wave an unhindered heavy hand and we all tremble out of guilt.